Circus Quotes - Page 4

• Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.

  Ally Carter

  Uncles, Mean, Boys

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• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Writing, Knives

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.159, Cornell University Press

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• When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

  Christopher Walken

  Kids, Thinking, Names

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• The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

  Billy Barty

  Thinking, Doctors, Nurse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Needs

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• A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

  Eric Idle

  Nudge Nudge, Bats, Blind

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

  Terry Gilliam

  New York, Team, Years

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• Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

  Billy Corgan

  Wrestling, People, Knows

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• What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

  Donald Pleasence

  Bears, Horror

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• I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

  Jean Rhys

  Lioness

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• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  Bil Keane

  Real, Inspiration, Cartoon

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• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Elephants, Voice

  Veg Family, March 2003.

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• There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Light, Doors

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Elephants

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• I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Careers, Plates, Enjoy

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• The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Difficult, Difficult Things, Night Circus

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, 2011.

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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Air, People

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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• A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

  Austin O'Malley

  Book, Doors, Reviewers

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• Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Interesting, Grandfather

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• I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Football, Ambition, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

  Juvenal

  Two, People, Bread

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• What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

  Eric Idle

  Sound, Bells, Brown

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus". m.imdb.com. 1969 - 1974.

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• Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Sanctuary, Worship

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro (2010). “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”, p.327, Zondervan

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• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Self, Blood

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Jul 15, 2016

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• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

  Erin Morgenstern

  Soul, Stories, May

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.386, Random House

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